Remington Education: Physical Pharmacy

Remington Education: Physical Pharmacy provides a simple, concise view of the concepts and applications of physical pharmacy. It is laid out in an easy-to-understand structure, guiding students through each relevant component of physical pharmacy.

Remington Education is a series of guides created specifically for pharmacy students to help them integrate the science of pharmacy into practice. By providing a summary of key information in the relevant subject area and including cases and/or questions and answers for self-assessment, they offer a practical way to check knowledge and track progress before, during, and after a course.

Each chapter features:

• Learning objectives
• Key points boxes
• Illustrations
• Assessment questions
• Further reading and references.

Blaine Templar Smith is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy and Nuclear Pharmacy programs. He is a registered pharmacist in both Oklahoma and Massachusetts, and has taught for more than 20 years at university level.

1. Intermolecular interactions
2. Pharmaceutical solvents
   
3. Solubility and dissolution
   
4. Colligative properties of solutions
   
5. Interfacial phenomena
6. Disperse systems - Colloids
   
7. Disperse systems - Coarse dispersions - Suspensions and emulsions

Answers to self-assessment questions

Index

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December 2015

"The study of physical pharmacy often fills many students with trepidation but this book, published by Pharmaceutical Press, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, can help to alleviate this by providing a simple introduction to the topic. The author defines physical pharmacy as a subcategory of pharmaceuticals that focuses on the reasons that drug delivery systems behave as they do...

"The book is laid out in an easy to understand way, guiding the reader through each relevant component. By providing a summary of important information and including self-assessment questions and answers, the book offers a practical way for students to check knowledge and track progress before, during and after a course in physical pharmacy."

Laurence A. Goldberg, The Pharmaceutical Journal, 22 December 2015